On Friday morning, Donald Trump stopped beating around the African Bush.
For the past oh, call it 18 hours, the President has been binge tweeting in an effort to distract America following reports that, during a meeting with lawmakers ostensibly aimed at crafting bi-partisan immigration legislation, he called Haiti, El Salvador and the entire continent of Africa “shitholes.”
Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking there’s absolutely no way that this President who, throughout his first year in office, has been a model of self-restraint and the picture of political correctness, would ever say something like that about a bunch of countries he couldn’t point to on a map if his life depended on it.
We’d bet you an entire bucket of Trump’s favorite extra-crispy KFC that he didn’t say that and if you took that bet, you’d owe us 12 pieces of the Colonel’s finest because this morning, Trump tweeted this:
Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings – unfortunately, no trust!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
See? Trump “never said anything derogatory about Haitians” – I mean, “other than” what he said in that tweet in which he reminds them that they are “obviously very poor and troubled.”
As to whether the word “shithole” was ever used, Trump says no, although he does concede that “tough” language was indeed employed in the service of effectively grabbing lady liberty by her statue pussy:
The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made – a big setback for DACA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
Well one person who was actually in the meeting with Trump was Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and he’s pretty sure he heard “shithole.”
In fact, he heard it more than once. Here’s Dick on “shitholes”:
Meanwhile, in what amounts to stone cold proof that you really can’t make this shit up anymore, President “Africa is a shithole” took some time out on Friday to explain what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for:
Martin Luther King Jr. stood up “for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear — that no matter what the color of our skin, or the place of our birth, we are all created equal by God,” President Trump said at a White House event honoring MLK https://t.co/NHum0jyS8W pic.twitter.com/RTVd0A3o5m
— CNN (@CNN) January 12, 2018
That, or maybe this:
MLK stood up for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear – that no matter what the color of our skin, or the shithole we were born in, we are all created by God.
As he was concluding his MLK remarks, the President was asked if he did in fact call Africans a bunch of shithole-dwellers and if so, whether he’d consider apologizing.
Here’s what happened next:
JUST IN: Pres. Trump does not respond when asked during an event honoring MLK if he described African nations with the term "shithole," if he will apologize and if he is a racist. https://t.co/tHk5hLN24j pic.twitter.com/kf0JJpwdL8
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 12, 2018
Nothing further.
Locker room talk.
Shithole is one word? I had no idea.
same as asshole.
I ask the question, “Who else heard the President use this word”? If no one else then why do we believe this one person whose party has done everything their power to discrete the President. Including paying for a false document filled with lies. They were the ones involved with the Russians and tried to fix the election. Bring forth another witness!!!!!
ummm…. there are like 10 witnesses. dude, seriously: Google’s your friend, brah.
https://www.axios.com/sen-graham-confirms-trumps-1515781088-2594e37d-a76b-45ba-b7ef-c220eab02d84.html
Of course he said it – hell, a jury of 12 would convict him on what we know to be true in this case and everything else we know about this man – sorry, I should not use the word man, how about this cretin.